Braintree

Worth seeing in and around Braintree

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Cressing Road

   Football stadium in Braintree, Essex, England

   1.4 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Cressing Temple

   Ancient monument situated between Witham and Braintree in Essex, England, UK

   6 km · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Church of All Saints

   Grade I listed church in Rayne, Essex, England, UK

   2.5 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Braintree Town Hall

   Municipal building in Braintree, Essex, England, UK

   0 m · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Doreward's Hall

   Manor house in Bocking, Essex, England, UK

   2.4 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   The Barley Barn

   Barn at Cressing Temple in Essex, England, UK

   5.9 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Bocking Blackwater

   Park in United Kingdom

   1.3 km · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Cuckoo Wood

   Park in Braintree, United Kingdom

   2.9 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Chapel Of The Immaculate Conception, Franciscan Convent

   Chapel in Braintree, Essex, England, UK

   1.4 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, Braintree

    Catholic church in Braintree, Essex, England, UK

    100 m · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Getting to Braintree

Airports

London Stansted (STN), 22 km · London Luton (LTN), 63 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 83 km

Stations

White Notley railway station, 5.3 km · Cressing railway station, 3.4 km · Braintree Freeport railway station, 1.4 km · Braintree railway station, 400 m

• London → Braintree

  62 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £7–10
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• Luton, Luton → Braintree

  67 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £8–11
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Braintree

  166 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £19–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Braintree

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Braintree. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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